GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CORPORATE NETWORKS

• US 20130293551A1
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Erez, Tamir, Himmelreich, Evgeny
• Granted Patent: US 8,937,618 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

Systems and methods for graphical representation of corporate networks are provided. The graphical representation may be used to present corporate information, e.g., corporate reporting structure, employee keywords, etc. The graphical representation may include nodes whose sizes are based on the corporate data, such as the number of direct reports, or frequencies of keywords appearances. The graphical representation may also include multi-layer corporation information. Further, the graphical representation may present a subset of corporate data in response to user inputs.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for corporate data analysis, comprising:

receiving a set of data, the set of data including information about a corporation; and

transforming the set of data into a graph representation, the graph representation including nodes whose properties are based on the set of data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation includes at least one visible organizational anomaly.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of data includes information about employee reporting relationships.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the graphical representation includes nodes representing employees and the sizes of the nodes are based on the number of direct reports the employees have.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of data includes information about keywords associated with employees.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the graphical representation includes a set of nodes representing keywords and the sizes of the nodes are based on frequencies of appearances associated with the keywords.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation includes multi-layer corporate information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the multi-layer corporate information includes employee reporting information and employee keywords information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of data may be retrieved from an internal corporate system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation represents a subset of the set of data.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving one or more user inputs for a particular graphical representation prior to transforming the set of data into the graphical representation.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising processing the set of data based on the one or more user inputs.

13. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a machine-readable storage device, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a set of data, the set of data including information about a corporation; and

transforming the set of data into a graph representation, which can be translated into graphical representation including nodes whose properties are based on the set of data.

14. The product of claim 13, wherein the graphical representation includes at least one visible organizational anomaly.

15. The product of claim 13, wherein the set of data includes information about employee reporting relationships.

16. The product of claim 15, wherein the graphical representation includes nodes representing employees and the sizes of the nodes are based on the number of direct reports the employees have.

17. The product of claim 13, wherein the set of data includes information about keywords associated with employees.

18. The product of claim 17, wherein the graphical representation includes a set of nodes representing keywords and the sizes of the nodes are based on frequencies of appearances associated with the keywords.

19. The product of claim 13, wherein the graphical representation includes multi-layer corporate information.

20. The product of claim 19, wherein the multi-layer corporate information includes employee reporting information and employee keywords information.

21. The product of claim 13, wherein the set of data may be retrieved from an internal corporate system.

22. The product of claim 13, wherein the graphical representation represents a subset of the set of data.

23. The product of claim 13, further comprising receiving one or more user inputs for a particular graphical representation prior to transforming the set of data into the graphical representation.

24. The product of claim 23, further comprising processing the set of data based on the one or more user inputs.